Mark Smithson

50 YEARS AGO TODAY. Perfection. #iubb

My NIL bill is simple. You get five consecutive years to play five seasons with one free transfer. If you choose to transfer again, you sit out a year. Proud to be leading the charge to SAVE COLLEGE SPORTS.

Allen Jackson - The Old Rugged Cross This heartfelt country-gospel performance hits straight to the soul — pure faith, raw emotion, and timeless truth in every note. One of the greatest hymns ever written.

I thought Streisand was the only woman who would be able to sing this song, but I was very wrong, wow what a performance. Thank you, a song well nailed by a great talent.

Indiana schools coming together to end Miami’s season in football and basketball

@JoClark70992650 @MZHemingway @BarackObama My wife was fooled by him. Slick talker, attractive to some, nice family, good speaker - total package for some. For me, it was more "how" he spoke, emphasis on certain words along with his message - he seemed to hide things even as he said them. I just had a strong gut feeling.

@MZHemingway @BarackObama I agree. And I voted for Obama twice. Knocked doors, gave money, got the shirt. I was gutted to realize how different he was from what I thought he was.

Bob Mueller was one of the finest directors in the history of the FBI, transforming the bureau after 9/11 and saving countless lives. But it was his relentless commitment to the rule of law and his unwavering belief in our bedrock values that made him one of the most respected public servants of our time. Michelle and I send our condolences to Bob’s family, and everyone who knew and admired him.

These were days when the music wasn't only about the lead singer. There were bands. The music had heart and soul, and brought amazing energy. Love of the times. If you wanna bring back memories and relive everything, there is your chance. Hall & Oates performing 'She's Gone' live at Old Grey Whistle Test.

@JoClark70992650 @MZHemingway @BarackObama It wasn't hard to see. But as a man, I have a pretty good read on other men.

HERE'S THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUMP/IRAN! Last caller on Washington Journal was the best call I've ever heard on the show. If useful idiots out there don't understand what President Trump is doing with Iran, this is the best description I've heard yet. Thank you Jeff, caller from Missouri! @realDonaldTrump

Voyager hit a 90,000°F wall at the solar system’s edge. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft crossed one of the most dramatic frontiers in the cosmos: the heliopause, the tenuous boundary where the Sun’s influence finally gives way to interstellar space. What the probe discovered there was astonishing—a turbulent zone of superheated plasma with temperatures soaring between 30,000 and 90,000 °F (roughly 17,000–50,000 °C). This wasn’t a physical wall or barrier, but a dynamic transition region where the outward-flowing solar wind abruptly slows, compresses, and piles up against the incoming pressure of interstellar material. That compression converts kinetic energy into thermal energy, driving the plasma to extreme heat levels far beyond anything found inside the heliosphere. Remarkably, despite the blistering temperatures, this “wall of fire” would pose no danger to a hypothetical astronaut. The plasma is extraordinarily diffuse—far less dense than the best vacuums achievable in Earth laboratories—so there are simply too few particles to transfer meaningful heat. The region is hot in temperature but cold in practical effect. Voyager’s instruments captured clear signatures of the crossing: a sudden plunge in solar wind particles, a sharp rise in galactic cosmic rays, and faint plasma oscillations that revealed the density and temperature of this exotic boundary layer for the first time. These vibrations—analogous to ripples on an unseen sea—provided direct measurements of conditions in a realm previously known only through theory. The heliopause itself serves as a vital shield. The entire heliosphere—the vast bubble carved by the Sun—deflects most of the galaxy’s high-energy cosmic radiation, helping protect life on Earth from constant bombardment. Beyond this protective envelope lies the harsher, unfiltered radiation environment of the interstellar medium. Today, more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from home, Voyager 1 remains the farthest human-made object ever sent into space. Still operational and transmitting precious data, it continues to reveal the secrets of this distant frontier. At the outer limit of our solar system, space is neither empty nor serene. It is a violent, glowing threshold—and humanity has only begun to map its mysteries.

@wilsonhlthcoach Sounds like you're talking about my dad....

We recently had another death in the family. He was a Type 2 Diabetic and diagnosed only 9 years ago. Since being diagnosed, he followed the advice of his dietitian and doctor. He ate lower fat, high fiber, avoided red meat and saturated fats, ate complex carbs and fruits, and he took his insulin. He took his insulin at every meal so he could eat what he wanted, as long as he stayed away from red meat and saturated fats. He would come to our house with a fasting blood sugar of 180-200 and say that was normal. We'd feed him steak and eggs. His fasting blood sugars would drop to 110. His appetite would be fully satisfied. He'd feel better. He'd need no insulin. He'd go back home. His doctor would tell him eating steak and eggs isn't recommended. He'd go back to eating his regular diet and needing his insulin. These past 9 years, he has had: - Stents placed - Open-heart surgery - Developed neuropathy - Chronic kidney failure - Reliance on a wheelchair - Toes amputated - Heel removed - On tons of meds In just 9 years, he went from being a somewhat active person in a physical job to spending his retirement sick and in a wheelchair to cardiac arrest. 9 years from diagnosis to death seems pretty short. If he only would've stopped listening to his doctor and dietitian and stopped eating the carbs, he might be alive today.

@MatthewNichol5 I listened to them on the tractor radio while in the field. EC Indiana. Had that radio cranked. Certainly why I'm nearly deaf today, lol.

@MatthewNichol5 Bob Sirott was great! "This has been a lotta BS!"

Back when Chicago was great. WLS AM churned out 45 gold by DJs like John "Records" Landecker, Larry Lujack, and Bob Sirott. Here is "Dancing In the Moonlight" by King Harvest. It was great being a kid listening to music like this. On another note, make Illinois great again and flip it red.

Rick Pitino was asked what stops people from being great. His answer was one word. "Ego stops greatness. I call it edging greatness out." "In a spiritual sense, ego is edging God out. But ego is edging greatness out." And he made a key distinction: "I'm not talking about confidence. You have to be a confident person." "But ego really gets you to where you think you've arrived. You think you know it all. You stop learning. You stop listening." That's the trap. Confidence keeps you hungry. Ego convinces you that you've already made it. You lose your hunger and humility. "Learning and listening are important for great leaders. Great leaders have to listen and they have to continue to learn and surround themselves with people that are better than them." EGO = Edging Greatness Out The moment you think you've arrived is the moment you stop growing. Stay confident. Stay humble. Never stop learning. (🎥@LewisHowes )

When a girl says, "5 mins", think about it like there are five minutes left in the 4th quarter and both teams have all their timeouts.

@JamesHu27192912 Yep. There's not many "next times" if you're not careful.

@BobPfalzgraf @Marion436842126 @Raven80504432 I've wondered about that. Can you provide more info? My calcium score is 998!

@Marion436842126 @Raven80504432 My BIL has been on statins for at least 15 years, after getting stents in his coronary arteries. Recently, the cardiologist used a device to grind up the calcium that was blocking his stents and vacuum up the calcium fragments. Follow the money!

1/4 I think we've been blinded by the pharma narrative. The “calcification stabilizes plaque” theory assumes that turning softer lipid plaque into dense calcium makes it less prone to rupture. But there’s another perspective: when vascular smooth muscle cells undergo /2

@TrackYourHeart LDL Statin LDL Statin LDL Statin LDL What about education and managing inflammation, which is the baseline driver of all this??

🚨 The 2026 dyslipidemia guideline just dropped, and it quietly changes how we think about cholesterol risk. Here are 10 takeaways clinicians shouldn’t ignore 🧵

Literally true

NEVER GIVE UP! 🐎 Every single person in that crowd thought it was over before it began. Churchill Downs, May 5th, 1973, twenty horses exploded from the gate, and the red chestnut with the white blaze was swallowed by the pack. Dead last. Not second-to-last. *Dead last.* The gasps rippled through the stands like a wave of disbelief, and somewhere in that crowd, someone leaned over and whispered what everyone was thinking: "He's too far back." But here's what they didn't understand, Secretariat wasn't lost. He was *reading*. Stride by stride, 18 feet at a time, he absorbed the race like it was written in a language only he could speak. His hooves hit the track like distant thunder rolling toward something inevitable — something no one had witnessed before and will likely never witness again. Can you feel that? The ground trembling. The air shifting. History leaning forward. Down the backstretch, something miraculous began to unfold. Last place became tenth. Tenth became fifth. Fifth became third. Each position surrendered not because Secretariat was chasing — but because the race was simply *bending to his will.* By the far turn, the crowd wasn't whispering anymore. Ron Turcotte barely moved his hands. He didn't need to. Because what Secretariat unleashed in that final stretch wasn't strategy or training or even heart — it was something beyond language. A pure, burning, impossible burst of speed that swept past Sham like a flame tears through wind. If you weren't there, you can't fully understand it. And if you were, you never forgot it. He crossed the wire in 1:59 2/5 — shattering the Kentucky Derby record in a time that still stands today, more than 50 years later. From dead last to immortal. In under two minutes. Think about that the next time someone tells you it's too late, you're too far back, or the gap is too wide to close. Secretariat didn't just win a race on May 5th, 1973. He rewrote the definition of possible — and left a record that the entire world hasn't been able to touch since. **What's the race *you're* still measuring?** - unknown author